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Planning Issues

Your Guide to the Planning Process

"The best way to make your views known on a Planning Application is to write to the Council. Do this as soon as possible after the Planning Application is lodged. There's no need to be very technical in the letter. Just outline your concerns and views and remember to pay the fee (that Fianna Fáil and the PD's brought in) of €20."

Policy

 

Green Party launches Urban Development Policy

The Green Party firmly believes that corruption and rezoning has imposed a terrible cost on new communities, and now is the time to reclaim planning for the people. The Party's Urban Development Policy provides for the setting up of a new land-use and planning agency. This new body would co-ordinate transport investment with planning policies. It also places communities

at the heart of the planning process. More....

Press Releases Click here for a list of Ciarán's press releases on local, national and international planning issues.
Newspaper Articles Some thoughts on One-off Housing
Independent 3rd January 2004
Ciaran outlines how a planning "free for all" will lead to a worsening quality of life for all rural dwellers.  Properly planned communities will provide a better lifestyle for young and old and protect our environment.
National Spatial Strategy -Too little, too late?
Independent  29th November  2002 Ciarán welcomes the National Spatial Strategy but fears that the political will is not there to implement long term changes in policy.
Conference Papers "Place-making through Density, Democracy and Design"
Royal Town Planning Institute Summer School Bangor, Wales, September 2003 Higher density housing reduces urban sprawl and leads to good quality urban environments.
Submissions Local Area Plans for Bray/Kilternan/Glenamuck/Old Connaught/Woodbrook /Shanganagh, July 2004 Improved public transport, higher housing densities near transport nodes and protection of green spaces are among Ciarán's concern with the local area plans.
Quality Bus Corridor Blackrock-Merrion Road and Dundrum-Blackrock. May 2004. Ciarán supports the QBC projects but wants greater protection for the  existing trees, better consultation with residents and more facilities for cyclists.

Page Last Updated 7 February 2007